Pictured (L-R): Peter Carlone, Kim Larson, Giovanni Mocibob, Baraka Rahmani, Jalen Saip Jessica Kim After October hits it’s a whirlwind of holidays until suddenly it’s the new year. Halloween and Thanksgiving zipped right past me and while I’m preparing for exam weeks, it seems like the rest of the world is warming up to the
The Acting Workshop with UBC Professor Tom Scholte is unfortunately delayed until the next semester.
Hello, Players! We are NOW accepting submissions for the 7th annual Festival Dionysia! Festival Dionysia is an annual festival of One Acts by the UBC Players Club, directed, written and produced mostly by UBC students. If you would like to direct or write a one act play, this is your chance! Playwrights, please fill
Jessica Kim Kay Meek Studio Theatre presents a one-man stage adaptation of Coming Up for Air, adapted, directed and produced by Leslie Mildiner based on George Orwell’s novel of the same name! The award-winning [Bernard] Cuffling portrays George Bowling, an insurance salesman who makes an escape from “Hilda and the kids” in London for a few
Jessica Kim I walked into Performance Works to see Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson by Alex Timbers and Michael Friedman presented by Fighting Chance Productions. Actually, not true. I walked into the United States of America. It wasn’t subtle at all, even outrageously so, and hilarious, like the show. The lights were red and blue and
UBC Theatre’s Wives and Daughters by Jacqueline Firkins, adapted from a novel by Elizabeth Gaskell is running November 9-25, opening next week! They are offering a group sale promotion $2 off the regular student price so $9.50 for 10 students and then the 11th is free. Wives and Daughters, a charming romp of love convoluted
Jessica Kim It’s the set the audience first sees when they walk in. It sets them up for the show. When I walked into the Centennial Theatre for URP’s production of Jesus Christ Superstar (music by Andrew Lloyd Webber and lyrics by Tim Rice), the set was reminiscent of the biblical times, complete with pillars
Sebastian Ochoa Mendoza I had never travelled so far to catch a work of theatre before. The Massey Theatre is located about two cities over from Vancouver, in what appeared to be a High School. When I opened the front door to find a High School gym, I insisted that we must’ve been in the
Pictured: John Voth and Kenton Klassen. Photo by Emily Cooper. Jessica Kim Whenever I walk into the Pacific theatre it’s always a peculiar experience. As I walk across the very stage the actors will stand on to find my seat, I wonder what it feels like to be watched from (almost) all directions, even the
Doubt: A Parable is a Pulitzer Prize winning play by John Patrick Shanley. It tells a story of a conflict between a nun and priest and the resulting uncertainty that surrounds the guilty party. The play takes an introspective looking into race, religion and sexuality. Doubt is directed by forth-year Theatre student, Samuel Jing. Cast & Crew